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virtio_net: remove ndo_poll_controller

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As diagnosed by Song Liu, ndo_poll_controller() can
be very dangerous on loaded hosts, since the cpu
calling ndo_poll_controller() might steal all NAPI
contexts (for all RX/TX queues of the NIC). This capture
can last for unlimited amount of time, since one
cpu is generally not able to drain all the queues under load.

virto_net uses NAPI for TX completions, so we better let core
networking stack call the napi->poll() to avoid the capture.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet 2018-09-27 09:31:55 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 4bd2c03be7
commit 260dd2c3e2
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drivers/net/virtio_net.c
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@ -1699,17 +1699,6 @@ static void virtnet_stats(struct net_device *dev,
tot->rx_frame_errors = dev->stats.rx_frame_errors;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
static void virtnet_netpoll(struct net_device *dev)
{
struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
int i;
for (i = 0; i < vi->curr_queue_pairs; i++)
napi_schedule(&vi->rq[i].napi);
}
#endif
static void virtnet_ack_link_announce(struct virtnet_info *vi)
{
rtnl_lock();
@ -2447,9 +2436,6 @@ static const struct net_device_ops virtnet_netdev = {
.ndo_get_stats64 = virtnet_stats,
.ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid = virtnet_vlan_rx_add_vid,
.ndo_vlan_rx_kill_vid = virtnet_vlan_rx_kill_vid,
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
.ndo_poll_controller = virtnet_netpoll,
#endif
.ndo_bpf = virtnet_xdp,
.ndo_xdp_xmit = virtnet_xdp_xmit,
.ndo_features_check = passthru_features_check,